Paintball loading device for a paintball gun

ABSTRACT

A paintball loading device is provided for a paintball gun, including magazines, a control switch, a movable cylinder, and a multi-linkage trigger. The magazines include an upper magazine and a lower magazine respectively configured above and below the movable cylinder, allowing paintballs to be positioned in tandem from the upper and lower magazines to a paintball feeding port behind the movable cylinder, and paintball blocking buttons including a lower paintball blocking button and an upper paintball blocking button. The control switch is configured below the lower paintball blocking button and is capable of a transversal movement to selectively set the paintball blocking button at a closed condition. The movable cylinder is moved with the multi-linkage trigger, thereby moving the upper paintball blocking button and lower paintball blocking button back to an open condition for the entry of paintballs into the paintball feeding port.

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a paintball loading device for a paintball gun, and more particularly to a paintball loading system for a paintball gun, allowing the paintball loading capacity to be increased and preventing the jamming of paintballs.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART

One of conventional bullet loading ways for rifles is engaging a magazine upward with a portion located behind a trigger, and then pulling the trigger to move an hammer behind it so as to fire the bullet pushed by a spring in the magazine to a barrel, thereby completing the whole action flow.

First, referring to FIG. 1, which is a schematic view of a conventional structure of a paintball gun in which paintballs loaded from below; in a paintball gun 10, a paintball 12 is pushed into a paintball feeding port 14 behind a movable cylinder 13 from a magazine 11 at the lower side of the paintball gun 10. Thereafter, not only an L-shaped linkage 16 in front of a trigger 15 is pressed down to push the movable cylinder 13 reward and cause it to enter the paintball feeding port 14 to capture a paintball 12, but a hooked linkage 17 behind the trigger 15 is also moved to pull back an hammer lower portion 18 to cause the hammer to rotate about a shaft 19 to pull a hammer upper portion 20 away from a gas valve 21 when the trigger 15 is pulled. Next, the impact hammer upper portion 20 is released suddenly to strike the gas valve 21 to cause high pressure gas supplied by a carbon dioxide cylinder 22 to be released timely, thereby shooting the paintball 12 out of a muzzle 23, and releasing meanwhile the movable cylinder 13 to return back to its original position due to the linking-up.

Referring to FIG. 2, which is a schematic view of a conventional structure of a paintball gun in which paintballs loaded from above, because another paintball loading type paintball gun 30 usually allows paintballs 31 to be stored in a magazine 32 located above the movable cylinder, each paintballs 31 are loaded by its own weight. But, it is rather difficult for players to bring out the gun on the go in any direction and percuss the paintball 31 any time.

According to the two types of conventional paintball loading devices mentioned above, the former is subjected to the limitation of the magazine below so that the storing of paintballs is limited and incapable of playing without stop, and the latter is unable to conform to players' requirements because of impossible timely paintball percussion such that the both have the disadvantages.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

One object of the present invention is to provide a paintball loading device for a paintball gun, mainly including magazines, a control switch, movable cylinder and multi-linkage trigger, the magazines configured above and below the movable cylinder allowing paintballs in the magazines to be respectively connected in tandem to a paintball feeding port behind the movable cylinder and paintball blocking buttons from above and below.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a paintball loading device for a paintball gun, mainly including magazines, a control switch, movable cylinder and multi-linkage trigger, the control switch being configured below a lower paintball button, thereby controlling the lower paintball blocking button through the transversal movement thereof.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a paintball loading device for a paintball gun, mainly including magazines, a control switch, movable cylinder and multi-linkage trigger, the movable cylinder being moved with the multi-linkage trigger, thereby moving a upper paintball blocking button and lower paintball blocking button back to enter a paintball feeding port and capture a paintball.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a conventional lower paintball loading type paintball gun structure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a conventional upper paintball loading type paintball gun structure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a paintball loading device according to the present invention before percussion;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a paintball loading device according to the present invention during percussion;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a paintball loading device according to the present invention after percussion;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a control switch position according to the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematically perspective view of a control switch structure according to the present invention; and

FIG. 8 is a schematically perspective view of a control switch according to the present invention while being put into practice.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Referring to FIGS. 3, 4 and 5, which respectively are schematic views of a paintball gun before, during and after percussion, a paintball gun 50 of the present invention includes a upper magazine 51 and lower magazine 52 respectively positioned above and below a movable cylinder 53, and paintballs 54 may respectively be connected in tandem from above and below to a paintball feeding port 57 behind a upper paintball blocking button 55 and lower paintball blocking button 59; the paintballs 54 in the upper magazine 51 and lower magazine 52 are arranged in a line between the upper and lower magazines 51, 52 naturally, and propped against the paintball feeding port 57 in sequence depending on the dimensions of reaction forces of springs inside the upper and lower magazines 51, 52, where the movable cylinder 53 can be moved with a multi-linkage trigger 58 to push the upper paintball blocking button 55 and lower paintball blocking button 56 backward simultaneously and capture the paintball 54 directly, allowing the paintball 54 to stay in the movable cylinder 53 at the paintball feeding port 57 temporarily without deformation due to compression and breakage misgivings. However, gas gushed instantly from an air valve 59 will percuss the paintball 54 forcibly out of the muzzle of the paintball gun 50 with a recovering force of the movable cylinder 53 when the paintball 54 is percussed by a hammer from behind. Thus, the firing amount of the paintballs 54 in one use can be doubled, the paintballs can maintain in a perfect percussion state, and more particularly, the paintball is never stuck through the provision of the paintball loading device according to the present invention.

To control the paintball firing amount during forward attack and during retreat defense in a play flow, the paintball loading device of the present invention further includes a control switch. Referring to FIGS. 6, 7 and 8, which respectively are a schematic view of a control switch according to the present invention showing where it is configured on a paintball gun, a schematically perspective of a control switch structure according to the present invention, and a schematically perspective view of a control switch according to the present invention while being put into practice, a control switch 60 is adapted to control an occasion for paintball loading from the lower magazine 52, allowing a sliding post 61 of the control switch 60 to abut a lower portion 62 of the lower paintball blocking button 56 by means of a T-typed design so that a upper portion 64 of the lower paintball blocking button 56 is moved to keep stopping paintballs 54 pushed up continuously from the lower magazine 52 with a constant pressure accompanying the forward movement of a poking bar 63 of the control switch 60 to disable the paintable loading temporarily. Thus, the paintball loading from the lower magazine 52 can then be recovered by pushing the poking bar 63 back after the beforehand paintball loading from the upper magazine 51 is completed. Therefore, it is convenient for a player to choose a paintball loading of the paintball gun 50 flexibly through the provision of the control switch 60 of the present invention. Namely, if the poking bar 63 is not moved, the paintballs will be kept loading from both the upper and lower magazines 51, 52; the paintball loading will be kept in the way that the paintballs are pressed and arranged one after another in sequence by themselves continuously against the paintball feeding port 57 depending on the pressure difference between the upper and lower magazines 51, 52. 

1. A paintball loading device for a paintball gun, comprising magazines, a control switch, a movable cylinder, and a multi-linkage trigger, wherein: said magazines comprise an upper magazine and a lower magazine respectively configured above and below said movable cylinder, adapted to each receive and hold therein paintballs and allowing the paintballs to respectively move in tandem from said upper magazine and said lower magazine to a paintball feeding port behind said movable cylinder and paintball blocking buttons comprising a lower paintball blocking button and upper paintball blocking button that are respectively arranged at locations corresponding to said upper and lower magazines and are operable in unison with a movement of the movable cylinder to move between a closed condition to block the movements of the paintballs of said upper and lower magazines toward said paintball feed port when said movable cylinder is moved to a rear position and an open condition to allow the paintballs to move toward the paintball feeding port when said movable cylinder is moved from the rear position to a front position; said control switch is configured below said lower paintball blocking button and is adapted to be operated by an external force to set said lower paintball blocking button in the closed condition; and said movable cylinder is moved with said multi-linkage trigger from the front position to the rear position, thereby capture said paintball at the paintball feeding port. 